NBC News: “The answer is … yes, depending on how you measure the votes. And closer looks at this year’s election and past races show why the Electoral College/popular vote divide is increasingly worrying in a nation with a sharply divided political scene.”
“Let’s start with 2020. Looking at the popular vote, Biden actually won by a sizable margin.”
“Biden’s 4.5-point victory margin is the second largest since 2000. Only Barack Obama’s 2008 7-point win was bigger. The same is true of Biden’s margin of 7 million popular votes. Obama won by 10 million in 2008. And of course, the 81 million votes Biden won is by far the most any presidential candidate has ever received.”
“But if you look just at the states that put Biden over the top in the Electoral College, he actually won by fewer votes than Trump.”
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